Vince Brannigan wrote in message ...
Peter McLelland wrote:


It is interesting that the constitution they
adopted was merely an improved version of the UK one with and elected
second house and an elected king.

Actually no. The US federal system was a complex balance of powoer on
both national and local levels that had no UK counterpart. States in
fact were much closer to the UK model than the Federal government.


I did say improved and I do mean that there are may aspects of the
original US constitution which were an improvement on that which had
gone before, but the powers of the President are very closely related
to the powers which were held by the monarchy at that time. Certainly
the US constitution was never as radical as some of the French
versions before Napoleon got his sticky hands on power.

Peter